{"id":940,"date":"2010-09-30T15:53:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T19:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2010-09-30T15:53:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T19:53:44","slug":"what-a-girl-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/30\/what-a-girl-wants\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Girl Wants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/55013\">article<\/a> about what men and women find attractive on Facebook a while back.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Speaking of what women want, this is a very gray area and is said to  change from woman to woman and <strong>even be inconsistent among a single  individual<\/strong>.&#8221; <\/em>(Bold mine.)<\/p>\n<p>Alas, so true. I like a certain quality or feature in one man, but the same thing in another turns me off. Moreover, I think I like someone one minute, and the next it&#8217;s shut off, like a spigot.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;One study&#8230;even confirmed the fact that while men are largely  in agreement about who they find to be attractive, women have no  consensus with one another. While men would largely agree about how  attractive a given image of a woman was, the scores from women would be  all over the board.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also true. My girlfriends and I have this game we call &#8220;Gross Crush&#8221;. All of us have someone we think is attractive that the others gag about. Some examples: Michael Douglas (ick), Chazz Palminteri (ew), and&#8212;mine&#8212;Joaquin Phoenix (dreamy!). My first runner-up is Bill Clinton&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>And regarding what men want:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;As for curvy women, it seems that men\u2019s brains respond to hourglass  figures like they are a drug&#8230;curvy  women\u2019s bodies  activate parts of the male mind that are associated  with rewards and  parts of the brain that are activated by drugs and  alcohol.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Boo yah! I am dope. I am the motherfucking grand prize.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, curvy and chubby are two different things.<\/p>\n<p>Rats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend posted an article about what men and women find attractive on Facebook a while back. An excerpt: &#8220;Speaking of what women want, this is a very gray area and is said to change from woman to woman and even be inconsistent among a single individual.&#8221; (Bold mine.) Alas, so true. I like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/30\/what-a-girl-wants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What a Girl Wants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}